Combined wall cabinet and dressing tray



0. HALL. COMBINED WALL CABINET AND DRESSING TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1920.

1 ,428,957, Patenteds ept. 12, 1922.

Patented Sept. 12, 192".

UNETEQ STATES FATE-NT ()FFHZE.

nnwm o. HALL, or BANGOR, aims;

COMBINED WALL CABINET AND DRESSING TRAY.

Application filed May 29,

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Enwirt O. HALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, haveinvented new and useful rm provements in Combined il all Cabinets andDressing Trays, 01' which the following is a specification.

This invention, which I call a combined wall cabinet and dressing tray,has for its object to provide an appliance adapted to house and protect,and to display for con venient access, the various articles used indressing infants.

The invention is embodied in the improvements which I will now proceedto describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an appliance embodying the invention,adjusted for use.

Figure 2 is a perspective View, showing the appliance closed.

Figure 3 is a section on the plane indicated by line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure l is a section on the plane indicated by line 2- 1 of Figures 2and 3.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of thefigures. I

The appliance comprises a body adapted to be mounted on a wall, or othervertical support, and including a bottom member 12, a top member 13, aback member 1 1, and two end members, each of which is preferablycomposed 01 two portions 15 and 16, spaced apart to form a housing space17 for a purpose hereinafter stated. Said parts form an open front body.

The appliance also comprises a cover member 18, hinged at 19 to thebottom member 12, and adapted to be lowered as shown by Figure 1 tostand flush with the bottom member 12, and to be raised as shown byFigures 2 and 3, to cover the open front. The cover member 18 isprovided with a three sided curb 2O obstructing the outer e 'e and theends of the member 18, leaving -o u v the meeting edges or the members18 and 12 unobstructed for simultaneous use as a tray LEUttOlll, asshown by .l-iguro 1. hard outer curb is adapted to confine articlesdeposited on the member 18 and 18 also adapted to en 1920. Serial No.335,244.

ter the body portion when the member 18' is raised.

The curb 20 is three-sided, that is to say, it is composed of an outermember parallel with the outer edge of the cover member 18, and twotransverse members parallel with the opposite ends or" said member, theform of the curb being such that it is adapted to confine articles onthe cover member 18, without obstructing the bottom member 12, so thatwhen the cover member 18 is lowered, the members 12 and 18 constitute acontinuous tray bottom, as shown by Figure 1.

Any suitable means may be provided to support the member 18 when it islowered. I prefer to employ as the supporting means two flexiblesupporting members 22, which may be lengths of chain, attached at 23 tothe member 18, and at 21, within the housing spaces 17. The attachingmeansat 24 may be screws inserted in the end member portions 15 and 16,and passing through end links of the chains.

WVhen the outer member 18 is raised, the flexible members 22 are housedin the spaces 17, as shown by Figures 3 and 1, so that they areconcealed from without and cannot contact with articles within. Thebottom member 12 and the cover member 18 constitute a relatively largeand capacious tray bottom, when the member 18 is lowered, articlesdepositeo on said tray bottom being confined by a tray wall portionformed by the back and end members of the body and by a tray wallportion formed by the curb 20 on the member 18.

It will be seen by reference to Figure 1 that the said tray wallportions practically surround the tray bottom formed by the members 12and 18, so that articles deposited on said bottom are confined againsthorizontal displacement in any direction. Said articles may be stored onthe bottom member 12 and protected by the body and cover members whenthe appliance is not in use, and spread on the tray bottom forconvenient access when the appliance is adjusted for use.

The structure may be of suitable size and suitably proportioned tosupport a baby in a recumbent position when the cover member 18 islowered, the baby lying on the cover member and being confined by thecurb. The bottom member at the same time constitutes a support fordiapers, and other toilet articles, these being stored beside therecumbent baby in position for convenient use.

I claim A combined Wall cabinet and dressing traycomprising a bodyadapted'to be hung .upon a Wall and including bottom, back, end

and top members,'the bottom, end and top members forming an open front,a cover member formed to close said front and hinged to the said'bottommember, means being provided for supporting the cover member flush withthe bottom member, and a three-sided curb attached to the cover memberand obstructing the outer edge and ends of the latter'leaving the inneredge unobstructed, the said bottom and cover members constituting thebottom of a dressing tray, the back and end members and the three-sidedcurb collectively constituting a confining Wall surrounding the traybottom when the cover member is flush with the bottom member, the covermember and curb being adapted to support and confine a baby In testimonywhereof I have 'aflixed my.

signature.

EDWIN 'o. HALL; T

